Carriages and horses transport military families back and forth, including food and accommodation, and this new policy has renewed many people's cognition. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Datong belongs to one of the nine sides, almost all of the territory is composed of military guards, to the establishment of military towns, everywhere are garrisoned border soldiers and horses, once by the army for the soldiers, take five taels of silver, the soldiers will almost have the opportunity to go home, generally there is no holiday, or can not afford the fare, the family wants to visit of course can only try their own way, generally the soldiers are the poorest poor, naturally it is unlikely to make up the cost of the visit.

Once they become soldiers, there are many people who cannot return to their hometowns for the rest of their lives, and most of them marry wives and have children in the places where they are stationed, and they directly take root.

Many soldiers are even more miserable, unable to return to their hometowns, and have no money to marry a wife, and live alone all their lives.

With the finances of the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to pay the salaries of the soldiers at all, and it was even more impossible to use the silver for things that seemed very meaningless such as transporting the families of the soldiers.

Li Shouxin's family also came with the car, and at the same time, the military secretary informed him that he could give three days off and accompany his family to go around the grassland to have fun.

Because it was a private matter, Li Shouxin did not bring his own guards, but fortunately, Zhang Chunniu and Lu Dafu and other old departments heard about it, so they took half a day off and accompanied their old bosses to pick up their families.

The cart stopped at the military station five miles away from Jining Fort, less than two miles away from the camp, this was to facilitate the family members who lived outside the barracks to save some footsteps, and it was much more inconvenient for Li Shouxin, who lived in Jining Fort, but fortunately, there were many people, and each person led two more horses, ready for the second elder of the Li family to ride.

Datong is located in a border county, and there are many ordinary people who can ride and shoot, and the two elders of the Li family have once ridden horses or mules and donkeys, and riding horses is not a problem.

Five or six miles away, everyone rode horses and laughed and walked forward, and after a while, the kung fu arrived.

The military station is a very large courtyard, the whole row of houses has been built in several rows, and there are many personnel, there are many soldiers who pass by here from the nearby military camp and take a car to the south, and there are also some soldiers who have gone north to the north, and there are also some soldiers who have returned from vacation, and there are several passenger vehicles that appear on the horizon and stop in front of the military headquarters, and many officers and sergeants stand in front of the military station, and everyone is looking forward to it.

Li Shouxin is not much better, he is the only son in the family, although the family is very bad, his parents love him very much, after being a soldier, his parents are of course frightened at home, but fortunately, he later learned that Li Shouxin became an officer, which is a little more relieved, but there are still family letters to return every month, this war lasted for half a year, and his parents were also very worried.

The carriage gradually stopped, and the coachman who was driving the carriage ran over and put a stepping stool at the door, and as soon as the door opened, a seven or eight-year-old baby jumped out of the carriage first.

A man with a full beard and a man who looked to be in his thirties ran over, this man was wearing a soldier's robe, and the chest label showed the logo of the sergeant major, and it seemed that he also had a skill, or management ability, and was a veteran, but because he could not pass the literacy course, he could not be turned into an officer, and for this kind of soldier, a new sergeant major system was introduced.

Sergeant major is also divided into several levels, the highest is the bureau sergeant major, only in the general combat team, are very rich combat experience, first-class personal fighting skills, and can serve the veterans, all because the literacy course can not pass, the age is too old, when ordinary soldiers or captains are wasted, high-level sergeant majors on the battlefield prestige is higher than ordinary officers or flag captains, their responsibility is to assist young officers in the battlefield command, stabilize the array, and boost morale, the role of these veterans is far more than ordinary young officers.

The sergeant major in front of him saw that the chest mark was at the level of flag captain, he should also be a soldier, and he was more than thirty-five years old after years of service, and the soldiers also needed experienced veterans to lead, so this person was transferred to the soldiers.

If the army established by Zhang Han has been almost six years since the beginning of the dart division team, and more than three years since the beginning of the inspection department, there are many enlisted in the army when they were recruited, and it is impossible to recruit all the strong guys in their twenties, after all, the reputation is not obvious, and now the recruits are almost all young and strong, and only the soldiers have relaxed the age limit, which has also caused the situation that although the army has not been established for a long time, the number of veterans is very large.

"Flag-level sergeant major, it's not bad." Zhang Chunniu saw the bearded sergeant major holding his wife and children and leaving with a smile, and commented: "The same monthly salary as the flag captain is more than 100 taels a year." You don't have to do those headaches to return the official documents, at most you can countersign the military order and it's done. ”

Lu Dafu pouted and said, "Then it doesn't depend on you wanting to be a sergeant major, don't work hard." ”

"Hehe," Zhang Chunniu said with a smile: "I'm an official fan, okay?" ”

Li Shouxin looked at the carriage that came over, and said: "Everyone doesn't have to worry, they all have a chance to see the reward for their merits." ”

Now Li Shouxin also has his own team, in addition to the two living treasures in front of him, there are several soldiers in the team he brought out who have also become officers, there are deputy flag captains, and there are also flag captains to the deputy hundred general level, Li Shouxin himself is now the deputy general level, he performed very well in the battle of Jining Fort, it is estimated that there is no problem with the general level of the division general, and it is also time to establish his own team.

If the army is expanded this year and a new division is established, in addition to the combat corps Li Shouxin needs a set of his own team to control the army, the cooperative army also needs to be as happy as possible with him, and Zhang Chunniu is of course also a good candidate.

The two old subordinates laughed, and some things didn't need to be said too clearly, but both of them knew it.

The people in the first car quickly got off, most of them were women who came to visit relatives with their little babies, and they all left happily, and the military secretary gave them independent houses, food and accommodation were all included, and everyone was relaxed, even if the family members who came by carriage were happy, and there was no fatigue from the fatigue of the journey.

"Dad, mother!"

Li Shouxin saw his father and mother walking out of the carriage, his eyes lit up, and he immediately greeted him.

"The Boss is here."

Li's father and Li's mother are both eye-catching, the two old people are actually in their fifties, in the later generations are still young and strong middle-aged people, and have not really entered old age, at this time due to the hardships of youth and long-term malnutrition, people in their fifties have white hair, teeth and teeth are shaken, and hunched waists abound, Li Shouxin's parents are okay else, but their hair is also white, and they look very obvious.

Both of them showed happy looks on their faces, and Li Shouxin stepped over in a few steps, lifted the corners of the general's robe, and wanted to kneel down and salute.

Father Li hugged his son and said, "Boss, don't kneel, the rules of your army with Yusheng are military salutes, you give your father and mother a military salute, so that your son can also look at it." ”

Li Shouxin used to bow down when he went home, but his parents came with the car this time, and they made such a fuss.

"I've seen my father!"

Li Shouxin was not informal, stood up straight, and saluted his parents with a beautiful military salute.

"Okay, my son is really mighty." Father Li looked at the silver horizontal bar on his son's shoulder, and suddenly said with a somewhat restrained face: "My son's logo seems to be a high-ranking officer in the army." ”

"Of course, our brother Li is a high-ranking official." Zhang Chunniu took a step forward, took the luggage that the second elder carried, and said with a smile: "Uncle and aunt, Brother Li will immediately change this horizontal bar to a silver star, that is, the general level of the general, according to the official system of the Ming Dynasty, it is the same level as the magistrate county, and they are all seven-grade officials." If it is awarded to the official of the guard, it will be at least five grades and thousands of households, the same grade as the Lord Zhizhou. ”

He Yusheng no longer takes the imperial court's official position seriously, although Zhang Han has the right to grant some official positions from thousands of households to hundreds of generals, and from chief flag officials to small flag officials, but internally, except for Wang Changfu, a few people who have been awarded thousands of official positions, and a few civilian high-level officials have been awarded the experience of the department, the vast majority of his subordinates have not been conferred officials, and nominally they have always been a group training formed by chambers of commerce in various places, which can only be regarded as a civilian armed force.

But in terms of the organizational structure and strength of He Yusheng, in the entire Datong area, the image of He Yusheng has long surpassed the border army of serious Datong Town, and the civil image is far away, since the recognition of the people is high, everyone deliberately ignores the fact that this army is actually armed with regimental training, but regards them as the most elite army of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that his son could be in a high position in such an army, Li's father and Li's mother were also full of joy on their faces, and the two old men were smiling.

Li Shouxin asked someone to lead the horse over, tied the luggage behind his horse, and said casually: "Is my father tired from riding in the car?" ”

Father Li glared and said, "How tired? Don't be too comfortable all the way, it's spacious and not bumpy, and the food is much better than at home. ”

Li Shouxin said with some uneasiness: "I didn't send back the silver every other month, why can't you eat well?" ”

"Silver alone is unreliable." Father Li said: "Silver is a dead thing, no matter how much it is, it can't sit on the mountain and eat nothing." In the future, when Lord Zhang allows you to buy land, or make up 5,000 taels, we will also enter individual stocks, and eat bonuses every year, and then we will dare to use them freely. Besides, you are twenty-six or seventeen, you used to be poor and couldn't afford to marry a daughter-in-law, and now you are busy with wars, but you always have to marry a daughter-in-law, not only to marry a daughter-in-law, but also to take a concubine for you, give birth to a few more at once, and give birth to a few more male babies for my Li family, my family has been passed down for three generations, and you are now in the army, in case the incense is broken, what is the use of more silver, I will not see my ancestors when I go underground. ”

Li Shouxin, who was speechless when Li's father said something, and Zhang Chunniu and Lu Dafu on the side all snickered.

Everyone rode horses, at this time it was already the deep winter of the grassland, the endless grassland was all yellow and gray and white mixed, with the naked eye to see the past, almost not see the edge of the grassland, this boundless scenery makes people feel very wonderful, there is also the pleasure of a wide horizon, for the people who live in the Lingqiu Mountain, the feeling is very strong.